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Migration stories from across the African diaspora

Praise House — Adama Delphine Fawundu’s new monograph explores evolutions of life, culture and family as African people have migrated and been moved forcefully across the world, from Brooklyn to Sierra Leone, to Saint Helena and South Carolina’s Sea Islands.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
© Joan Piekny

Vintage photos of London street life at the turn of the millennium

London 1995-2005 — In her new photobook, Joan Piekny reflects on a decade shooting the styles and subcultures of the UK capital’s streets, just before technology .

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

A luminous portrait of Black life over six decades

Shared Memories — As staff photographer for The New York Times, Chester Higgins captured Black culture and spiritual connection like no other. A new exhibition celebrates his life and impact.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

An intimate window into New York’s ’70s lesbian scene

We Others — An exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery combines Donna Gottschalk’s unearthed photographs of LGBTQ+ activists and friends, along with Hélène Gianneccini’s written histories.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen
© Beverly Price

In photos: Washington DC’s Black communities facing up to gentrification

A Language We Share — A new exhibition featuring the work of Beverly Price and Gordon Parks preserves historically Black neighbourhoods in the USA, before development and economic forces made them disappear.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

On the frontlines of Britain’s ’80s protest movements

Protest and Equality — Against a backdrop of Thatcherism, hospital closures and global conflict, photographer Sarah Saunders was a documentarian of the long decade’s effects on society, as well as the communities actively resisting it.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

The London passport picture studio that became an unexpected repository of 20th century stars

Passport Photo Service — From Mick and Bianca Jagger to Muhammad Ali and Poly Styrene, the unassuming Oxford Street store was frequented by hundreds of musicians, actors, artists and more over its 70 years of operation.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

When the Chelsea Hotel was New York’s countercultural epicentre

Closed doors, open minds — Albert Scopin’s new photobook collects photographs that were once thought to be lost, documenting the city’s creative scene that gathered during the building’s 1969 to 1971 heyday.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Andrea Modica’s 40 year long Italian Story

Storia — The Italian American photographer first ventured to her ancestral country in 1987, beginning a decades long exploration and documentation of it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The utopic vision of Black liberation in ’60s & ’70s jazz

Freedom, Rhythm & Sound — As Pan-African optimism spread across the world in the postcolonial era, Black-led record labels gave artists space to express themselves away from the mainstream. A new book collates 500 groundbreaking albums and their covers.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen

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